Not really. His scenario is a hundred to one shot or more. If your house is properly grounded the chance of your losing everything like that is pretty much nil.
Tell me about Wifi Repeaters
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Something like this should do the trick. Plenty of speed too.
Cloud Managed Wi-Fi 6 2x2 Outdoor Access Point
Cloud Managed Wi-Fi 6 2x2 Outdoor Access Point
This.
If not ubiquiti, Asus AI mesh
Not an expert but I run an Eero Mesh system in my house that was easy to setup and I have a strong wifi connection throughout my house and well into the backyard. Haven't had a single problem with it in the 3ish years I've had it installed.
Hopefully I'm not giving any bad info here but I always thought repeaters just repeat the weak signal. The mesh nodes you place throughout your house and they each create their own signal. You could have one node as far back in your house as possible and another in your shed.
Hopefully I'm not giving any bad info here but I always thought repeaters just repeat the weak signal. The mesh nodes you place throughout your house and they each create their own signal. You could have one node as far back in your house as possible and another in your shed.
Repeaters are 'dumb' and just repeat, like you said. Mesh will backhaul the traffic on another radio band so it doesn't interfere with wifi.
I don't know if the 'mesh' systems are a true mesh where they self-heal and can route traffic around failed nodes, it seems like it's just a marketing term now.
Mesh vs wired access point - which is best? I would think a wired AP should outperform anything else and max out the limit of the wifi system in each router.
Just found this and makes sense to me. I'd rather go with wired AP over mesh. Our house has wired AP at 3 locations. I might add another one in the detached garage since we have a wired connection in conduit. Only thing is a good hacker behind us would now easily pick up the signal. How easy is it to hack into a WIFI system? Our passwords are not as complex as they could be but have some fancy characters and upper / lower case combinations.
Wireless Access Points vs Mesh Network | Smart Systems
"Because mesh networks utilize wireless devices, this route is the more DIY of the two options. What you may gain with ease of installation, though, you may lose in speed. Mesh networks are typically not as fast as a hardwired network."
Wireless Access Points vs Mesh Network | Smart Systems
"Because mesh networks utilize wireless devices, this route is the more DIY of the two options. What you may gain with ease of installation, though, you may lose in speed. Mesh networks are typically not as fast as a hardwired network."
That’s important as hell here with the storms we get.
We are running AiMesh in two homes. One is simple home, cable internet, with multiple Asus routers and get signal for a good ways.
the other is a large 1 story house in the country running off Elon’s Starlink. From the center of the house we are running 300 ft of CAT 6 to a shop in conduit to an Asus router for AiMesh and then we are running another over WiFi to another Asus router in the room over the garage a good distance away that strengthens the signal before resending. Allowing us to get signal out by the pool along with other side of house. Doing speed tests with that router on and off drastically changes the speed.
the other is a large 1 story house in the country running off Elon’s Starlink. From the center of the house we are running 300 ft of CAT 6 to a shop in conduit to an Asus router for AiMesh and then we are running another over WiFi to another Asus router in the room over the garage a good distance away that strengthens the signal before resending. Allowing us to get signal out by the pool along with other side of house. Doing speed tests with that router on and off drastically changes the speed.
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